Among the ruined olive groves and the drab, pathetic rubble of small Italian towns, exultant Frenchmen with glittering eyes were rubbing out the memory of June four years ago. Down the dusty, twisting ...

Following months of fierce debate in France, President Jacques Chirac has called for a law to ban Islamic headscarves and other “conspicuous” religious symbols from schools run by public authorities.

A leading Republican senator is blasting the French government for its efforts to impose a ban on the wearing of religious symbols or garments in public schools. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the ...

Secularism has been a bedrock principle of the French Republic since 1905, when the law separated the Catholic Church from the State. But now, the Muslim requirement of headscarves for women has ...

Rahma Slimane is a 19-year-old senior, and straight-A student, at the Vocational High School in Savigny-le-Temple, a stark, working-class suburb of Paris. A devout Muslim, she chose two years ago to ...

A photograph shows France's flag waving at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris (Photo by Geoffroy Van der Hasselt / AFP) From the story behind two of France's national symbols to the importance of la rentrée ...

The French education minister’s proposal to prohibit students from wearing abayas - full-length robes worn by some Muslim women - has been welcomed on the right as a move to protect France's ...

The Front National leader said she wanted to ban all religious symbols, “especially ones that are not French”, if she wins the presidential election in May. She said it was “good” there were not a lot ...

France’s Court of Cassation Wednesday upheld a bar association’s ban on barristers wearing religious symbols alongside robes in courtrooms. In June 2019, the Lille Bar Council notified its members ...